What's In Season: May

I know May is almost over and Memorial Day has officially ushered in summer, but I wanted to share with you what's currently in season besides hamburgers and hot dogs.

Be sure to pick up some radishes, broccoli, rhubarb, asparagus, strawberries, and spinach from your farmer's market. And you can't go wrong with the classic combination of strawberry and rhubarb in this delectable pie from Smitten Kitchen.

May Tomatoes

Anyone watch New Girl on Fox? In one of the most recent episodes, Nick waters his tomato plant like this:

Don't do that. :)

In other news, my tomato seedlings are about to bust out of their starter cups and are heading outdoors this weekend. They have gone from these little guys:

To these BIG guys:

Some of them are flowering and all of them are itching to get into a bigger pot. If you have any seedlings you started indoors or are looking to put some plants outside your living space, this weekend is the time to do it. Going forward, we should be frost-free! Happy planting!

Spanish Blue Bells

Remember back in December when I planted those Spanish Blue Bell bulbs? Say that ten times fast! I blogged about it here.

Well, they have bloomed!

From this:

To this:

Because of our wacky winter/spring everything is about three weeks early, so I missed the peak blue bloom, but I think it is still pretty. Check out Pier 1 at Brooklyn Bridge Park this weekend for all the early spring flowers.